Should e'er invading foot this England tread—
Upstirring, then, his marble tomb beneath.
Our Wellington's undying fire shall burn
Through all our veins—until the foeman say,
"Behold, their Arthur doth to life return!"
And awestruck from the onset shrink away.
Moreover, Punch defends the martial pageantry at the Duke's funeral at this juncture on the ground that it served to show to "Continental despots and bigots with what enthusiasm we yet honour military heroism; that if we have abjured the life of strife, we have not renounced the spirit of valour."
ABERDEEN SMOKING THE PIPE OF PEACE
